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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.
Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.
Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.
The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.
A lot of my literature deals with these people who are somehow magnetic because they have that ability to step over lines.
Whatever I read went under my skin. I almost devoured the literature, which became like a road to discovery.
There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.
The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.
Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.
No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.
Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace.
Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them.
My mother has always been an Anglophile and taught my sister and me to love British history and literature.
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.
...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature.
Once, Azamgarh was known in the field of education and literature, but the Samajwadi Party turned it into a stronghold of terrorism.
I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.
When I was a kid, I went through the whole process of reading great literature and trying to be very widely read.
... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.
The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated.
While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.
People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.
Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin.
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.
each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.
This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
Caribbean literature only has to be true to itself. It doesn't need colonialism or imperialism. It's always been vibrant.
I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted.
We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!
Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we." This is the sorcery of literature.
I wrote about my journey through the country of Serbia exactly as I have always written my books, my literature.
Our language and literature are without a doubt Britain's greatest contribution to the cultural heritage of the world.
I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.
Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.
I consider Yoda to be just about the most evil character that I've ever seen in the history of literature.
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
Poe gives the sense for the first time in America, that literature is serious, not a matter of courtesy but of truth.
My earliest memory campaigning was going to the dump to get petition signatures or handing out literature.
The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.
I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.
I don't read novels that are looking to convince me of anything. I believe that literature needs to be a machine of illusions.
